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A comic from illustrator Karen Romano Young.

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Antarctic Log 2.2

March 2018

Karen Romano Young's 3rd AntarcticLog

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AntarcticLog 3

February 2018

Leftwich and her team have spent hours filming captive sea lions at Smithsonian’s National Zoo, trying to get clear video footage of the animals clapping so they can examine the way their flippers move from frame to frame.

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Leftwich at the Zoo Observing Sea Lions

October 2017

Rhabdosoma’s uncommon eye arrangement allows the animal to see 360 degrees.

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360-Degree Eyesight

March 2016

Algae or "seaweeds" (left) differ from seagrasses (right) in several ways.

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Algae vs Seagrass

March 2018

The view from Fira, Santorini's capital city on the Aegean Sea, includes an active volcanic island formed by the same volcano that formed the Santorini islands.

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Santorini Island View from Fira

May 2015

Corals Get Covered: The Gulf oil spill was different from many big oil spills in history because oil spewed from a well in the deep sea instead of leaking onto the ocean's surface. GoMRI scientists have found that oil remains in the deep to this day—and

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Corals Get Covered

February 2015

Dispersant in the Deep: Dispersants, soap-like chemicals that cause oil to mix with water more easily, have been used with success to remove oil after a spill on the ocean's surface. But Deepwater Horizon wasn't a surface spill; instead, oil spewed into th

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Oil Spewing From Macondo Well

January 2015

Red Pigfish and Blue Mao-Mao school at the edge of a cavern in New Zealand's Poor Knights Islands. Read photographer Brian Skerry's story behind this photo.

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Protected Pigfish and Mao-Mao School

February 2018

This 1936 blue whale specimen from the Gulf of Alaska (above: preserved in alcohol, below: CT scan) is part of a rare Smithsonian collection of whale fetuses that were collected in association with commercial whaling operations in the early to mid-20th cen

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Blue Whale Specimen

March 2015

Follow the Fingerprint: There are many sources of oil in the Gulf of Mexico, including natural deep-sea oil seeps, small spills from ships, and oil from roads that washes into the sea—not to mention big oil spills like Deepwater Horizon. How do GoMRI res

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Layers of Weathered Oil

January 2015

Sand dollars (like those pictured in this set of illustrations) are flattened, burrowing sea urchins. Dead, sunlight-bleached specimens resemble silver coins, hence their common name. These figures portray a sand dollar’s lifecycle from larva to adult.

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Sea Urchins

June 2015